CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. Data science history was made on 19 Feb 2015. For the first time in the history of Hadoop World, the President of the United States gave a keynote. Dwell on that for a bit. This is huge. No matter what your politics is, you really have to agree, this is huge. After the President''s address also see the overview provided by DJ Patil, the new Chief Data Scientist for the federal government.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'Disaster recovery is something that involves planning for the worst, and hoping for the best. As new technologies such as virtualization and cloud have matured, is it time to include cloud in your DR plans? See if your planning might benefit from the addition of cloud services at this session at.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'Over the last decade I''ve had the privilege of working with several IT teams that transformed themselves from minimal credibility with the business to delivering award winning customer facing products while improving other IT business services. Different groups with different issues and opportunities, but what stands out with all of them is their willingness to change and improve their own.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'If you ask any business leader whether they’d prefer that their organization be thought of as ‘slow moving’ or ‘agile’, most would respond with ‘agile’ as their preference. Those that don’t respond in the affirmative toward agility are most likely running a dying business or are just out of sync with their industry and their organization. While everyone most likely knows what agility means, let me take as second to define the term and set the stage for the discussion.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'Digital cowboys are the next CIO management challenge Image Credit: anyjazz65. In the modern IT department, CIOs are called upon to perform many different tasks. I believe that we can all agree that one of the most important of these tasks is managing and mentoring the next generation of IT leaders. Today’s new arrivals seem to be so different from when we joined the firm that a lot of us simply don’t know where to start when it comes to showing them the way.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'By Jodi Kohut Those watching federal cloud security in the defense space were pleased to learn the Defense DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (v1) (SRG) last month. This 152-page document outlines the security requirements that Department of Defense (DOD) mission owners must adhere to when procuring cloud-based services. While the document is very thorough and is required reading if you currently, or intend to provide, cloud-based services to the DOD, I wanted to cover some of the

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

'How to approach cloud and make the most of cloud services is one of the continuing issues faced by data center managers and operations, and the spring Data Center World event has several sessions on cloud and cloud options. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

'Thanks to Ramon Monteiro @ivisualize for developing this cool visual depicting my last post on The Key to aligning Agile Dev and Stable Ops to a Successful DevOps Transformation. While agile development teams continue to iterate and improve applications for the Business, and Ops insures that systems are stable and reliable, the CIO leads the entire IT organization through a DevOps transformation.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'If you’ve spent any time within IT over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘cloud’ more than you really wanted to. The cloud has become something of a buzzword over the years. Buzzwords are created when a term is overused, and the cloud has been overused quite a bit in many organizations. It seems that any time a problem arises, the first solution is to use ‘the cloud’.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

'In IT, can the fox successfully watch over the chickens? Image Credit: digitalprimate. I’m sure that by now you’ve read some of the stories that are out there about CIOs who managed to get themselves into outsourcing contracts that turned out badly. The reasons that the deals took a turn for the worse are many and varied, but the end result is the same: the CIO’s customers were left feeling unsatisfied.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

'Recent security breaches have heightened our awareness of cybersecurity issues. The hack and other security breaches have resulted in unprecedented damages. However, the majority of mobile device users have yet to be sensitized to their personal and corporate security risks. Staples For example, a security study found that 69 percent of users store sensitive personal information on their mobile devices.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. The fine print offered by Samsung regarding their new Smart TV is something you need to dwell on. Not only does the TV recognize your voice, but it will record your conversations even when you do not know you are being listened to. Additionally, this information will be used by Samsung. And, according to their fine print, may also be used by third-parties they decide to work with.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

'To validate its new data center design, DuPont Fabros filled a data hall with 200 cabinets of different heights and form factors, and used load banks to simulate densities of 15 kW per rack Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

'So who does own DevOps? I left readers with this cliffhanger after my last post and my intro post on The What, Why and How of DevOps. If an organization is embarking on a DevOps transformation, how should it be led so that Dev and Ops teams are likely to collaborate more and battle less in adapting and maturing new practices? To answer this question, I would suggest we get back to basics.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

'In what might be the best titled article I’ve read in a while, Vince Kellen writes about the dangers of confirmation bias (or ‘finding what we want to find’) when working with big data. The article, titled “ Big Data and the Mirror of Erised “, Kellen writes: Being human beings with a tendency to confirm what we so want to have happen or to relive what felt so good in the past, managers often drift into self-sealing and circular analysis that at first doesn’t seem

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'Being a CIO is all about having the power that you need to do your job Image Credit: Frédéric BISSON. As the person with the CIO job, because of the importance of information technology your company expects a great deal from you. However, if you have not managed to gather the power and the credibility that you are going to need in order to successfully accomplish your job, then it’s going to be very hard for you to accomplish what you need to get done.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

'By Melvin Greer Managing Director, Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation Without question, the rise in cyberleaks, nation-state cyber terrorism and the beach of consumer data across multiple industry domains has led to a heightened awareness of the enterprise and personal responsibilities associated with cybersecurity. The consumerization of IT and the adoption of cloud, mobile and social media by enterprise organizations is opening a new threat landscape and new threat vectors.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'By Bob Gourley. CTOvision is very proud to be a media sponsor of the 4th annual Cloudera Federal Forum. If you are into technology and government and want to find ways to enhance your ability to serve big missions you need to be at this event, 25 Feb at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner. The Cloudera Federal Forum, now in its 4th year, has always been filled with lessons learned, best practices and informative glimpses into what is coming from the big data tech community.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

'Colocation offers organizations the ability to meet business demands at a lower cost, writes Rowland Kinch of Custodian Data Centres. Because of this, more and more companies are shifting their operations from in-house server rooms to colocation facilities. Read More.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'Reviewing some of my latest DevOps posts. I''ve covered why DevOps is important, asked the question Who Owns DevOps and answered that the CIO needs to own transformation initiatives. In my last post, I stated that agile development teams should stick to owning the practices tied to Development like automating testing and standardizing deployments so that they stay aligned and focused on.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'Mark Thiele published a post recently titled “ Why we Value IT Incorrectly – Innovation vs Cost Center. ” You should go read it. If you don’t follow Mark’s writing on his blog or twitter , you should…he has some great insights into IT , IT leadership, the data center and many other aspects of the IT group. While Mark’s entire post is great, I wanted to point out one particular paragraph from Mark’s post and make a few comments about it.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

'CIOs know that they need to be strategic, but where is the time? Image Credit: catd_mitchell. Pick up any IT trade journal and you’ll probably find an article that is telling CIOs that because of the importance of information technology they need to get a seat at the company’s planning table. In order to do this, they need to become more strategic.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

'By Sandra K. Johnson Technology leadership is driven by the innovation and creativity of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. S TEM careers offer some of the highest-paying jobs and the potential for a high quality of life. However, the realization of such promises has not benefited all segments of the U.S. population, including African-Americans.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

'By Nate Fick. Editor''s note: Nate Fick is the CEO of Endgame where we first saw this piece. We asked him to share these thoughts with you here. - bg. The Obama Administration deserves credit for putting together the first-ever White House summit on cybersecurity on Friday and – contrary to what some media coverage may lead you to believe – the U.S. private sector mostly deserves credit for showing up.

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'Creating a powerful cloud services layer requires a good platform capable of integration with a variety of resources. Check out the good and the bad in two leading open source clouds Read More.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

'Several problems in Distributed Systems can be seen as the challenge to determine a global state. In the classical " Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System " Lamport had laid out the principles and mechanisms to solve such problems, and the Distributed Snapshots algorithm, popularly know as the Chandy-Lamport algorithm, is an application of that work.

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Eric D. Brown

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “ Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them ”, Ron Ashkenas provides an example of a company wanting to do the ‘right’ thing but not having the processes or systems in place to pull it off. The example provided by Ashkenas is one that I’ve heard and experienced many times myself. One of his clients implemented a ‘crowdsourcing’ approach to gathering innovation ideas from people throughout their business.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

'This script will import and apply a local GPO using the local GPO utility, ImportRegPol.exe, located here. The script is a wrapper that makes implementing this utility a snap. All that has to be done is to use the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager to export the desired local GPO. I wrote this script for use mainly in the MDT build. I realize there is the GPO Pack built into MDT, but what happens when you want to deploy a local GPO to machines already built or multiple local GPOs at differen

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

'Cybersecurity breaches are seemingly making headline news every day. Recent cases have highlighted identity theft, the loss of personal financial data, and the disclosure of sensitive national security information. The executive in the hot seat for preventing these failures is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In order to better understand the challenges and concerns of this critical professional community, the 2015 National CISO Survey is now being conducted.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

'By Katie Kennedy. On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 CTOvision publisher and Cognitio Corp co-founder Bob Gourley hosted an event for federal big data professionals. The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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